The Dangers of Social Conformity Exposed in The Prime of Miss Jean Brod

The Dangers of Social union undefended in The Prime of Miss blue jean Brodie Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie depicts the coming of age of six adolescent girls in Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1930s. The story brings us into the classroom of Miss Jean Brodie, a fascist school instructor at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, and gives close encounter with the social and political mood in Europe during the era surrounding the second World War. Sparks figment is a narrative relating to us the complexities of politics and of social conformity, as puff up as of non-conformity. Through looking at the Brodie set and the reciprocities between these students and their teacher, the writer, in this novel, reviews the essence of group dynamics and brings in to focus the adverse do that the power of authority over the masses can produce. Sparks, in so doing projects her skepticism toward the teachers ideologies. This skepticism is played out through the persona of flaxen Stranger, who becomes the central section in a class of Marcia Blaine school girls. flaxens character is even more focally sculpted than the teachers favored disciples who came to be know as the Brodie Set a small group of girls favored by Miss Jean Brodie in her Prime. The Brodie Set is a social form and a enigmatic network of social relations that acts to draw the demeanour of its members toward the core values of the clique. The teacher Miss Jean Brodie projects upon this impressionable set, her ardent fascist opinions. She controls this group on the basis that she is in her prime. Her prime world the point in life when she is at the height of wisdom and insight. sandy pejoratively uses the personality traits and ideolog... ...t this small group level, conformity dispels individual judgement. Sandy projects to us that this kind of social conformity under the pressure of authority, is to be blamed for many social problems and adversities in the individual lives o f the Brodie girls, and in rescript at large. Bibliography 1. Coon, Dennis. Psychology Exploration and Application. West Publishing Company 1980. 2. Costanzo, P. Conformity development as a function of self blame. Journal of reputation and Social Psychology 14 366-374 1970. 3. Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Larson, R. Being Adolescent. Harper Collins publishing house 1984. 4. Homans, G.C. Social Behavior Its Elementary Forms. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1961. 5. Lodge, David. The Uses and Abuses of Omniscience Method and Meaning in Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Ithaca, Cornell 1971.